Combat Academy

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The Combat Academy, which is run by Lady Deathknell, is a place for players to learn the basics of combat after the Evolution of Combat. It hosts a tutorial for all information related to the new combat system. She offers 7 lessons for players to understand the basics.

The Combat Academy.

Introduction to Combat

Combat Styles

The Combat Triangle

Targeting, Enemy Weaknesses and Damage Types

Using the Ability Bar and Basic Abilities

Adrenaline, Threshold Abilities and Ultimate Abilities

Ability Effects

Contents

The academy is located at Lumbridge, west of the Smithing tutor and north of the General Store. It can be also accessed from either the first login after the Evolution of Combat update, or the designated button located on the game control panel (shown to the left). In the area are seven training dummy dispensers, which could be used to dispense a dummy, with options to choose its combat style, weakness and strength. After the dummy appears, the player could opt to turn on retaliation to have it fight back. There are also three stationary dummies that are weak against nothing.

To start the tutorial, you have to empty all your belongings in both inventory and equipment slots. There is a deposit box to deposit items into your bank. Afterwards, talk to Lady Deathknell. You can start with the beginning or any particular courses.

In each course, you act as a demonstration assistant to perform action on what Lady Deathknell says. The courses will proceed in different sessions.

After you complete certain actions, you can proceed to the next session by talking to Lady Deathknell. You can also leave the session in the middle, but you need to go through the whole courses again next time.

Your performance is graded according to certain outcomes in the form of Ranks: Champion, Hero, and Legend. The outcomes can be accessed from the interface when you right-click on Lady Deathknell and "start-tutorial".

In this section, the player will assist Lady Deathknell to identify and exploit opponents' weakness.

Notes: 1) At one point, the noticeboard tells you to select the magic spell "Wind Strike" - there is no Wind Strike in your spellbook, so just select "Air Strike" and continue. 2) Lady Deathknell presents a dummy, not skeletons, and when she says "Excellent, try another" be sure to 'Target' the dummy again in order to select the proper weapon for attacking it the 2nd and 3rd times.

The juggernaut heals itself whenever it is out of combat. For players who can knock it down before having enough adrenaline, run away from the arena. When the health bar of juggernaut disappears, attack again to gather enough adrenaline for the abilities.

Insert and use the range or magic abilities for instant movement in your ability bar to increase your adrenaline levels without inflicting additional damage.

After finishing a section in the combat academy, the player can open the course interface and right-click on the rank and select Claim-Reward to claim the reward. A reward book will be granted to the player. Each rank gives a reward book, giving experience to combat skills only (Attack, Strength, Defence, Constitution, Ranged, Magic, Prayer, Herblore, Summoning and Slayer) at players' choices. The amount of experience can be estimated with the following formula (with x represents the skill level): You can claim your reward book on right clicking Lady Deathknell and clicking on claim reward.

Completing the Combat Academy allows one to toggle its designated menu tab into a shortcut to the Quest Journal.

Choosing to partake in the Combat Academy survey during the beta period allowed one to redeem an experience-granting dusty tome from Diango.

Players used to have the ability to teleport directly to the Combat Academy, however the ability has recently been removed for players who have completed the Academy already. For players who still haven't completed it, this ability to teleport directly to the Combat Academy remains. This has been fixed after the update on June 172013.

You cannot teleport to combat academy while in combat.

The Combat Academy was given a bank when Runescape 3 was first released.